The Independent - August 24, 2024
The Independent - August 24, 2024
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August 24, 2024
Increased post-Brexit red tape could paralyse Dover
Port boss warns travel hub set to be at a standstill by Easter
4 mins
Energy bills to rise by £150 after Ofgem raises price cap
Households in Britain will face higher energy bills this winter after the regulator raised the price cap by 10 per cent.
4 mins
Why MPs might be denied a vote on fuel payment cuts
More than half of the members of the House of Commons are newly elected, and may be surprised to discover they may not be given the chance to vote on the controversial decision by chancellor Rachel Reeves to withdraw winter fuel payments from pensioners who are not on pension credit. This will provide them with an early crash course in some of the basics of how parliament passes legislation.
2 mins
Body of tycoon's daughter recovered from superyacht
Tributes have been paid to the 18-year-old daughter of British tech tycoon Mike Lynch after her body was recovered from the sunken yacht Bayesian.
3 mins
Labour's muddled pecking order must be hastily solved
When Keir Starmer's team drew up its \"first 100 days\" in power plan when a July election was called, after an initial policy blitz, they planned to use the normally quiet political month of August to complete the transition to government by fine-tuning the new machine.
3 mins
Badenoch would defeat all leadership rivals, poll finds
Kemi Badenoch has been handed a boost in the race to take over from Rishi Sunak as leader of the Conservatives, after a new poll of party members indicated she would beat all five of the other contenders if she reaches the final two.
1 min
Met ends investigation into election gambling scandal
The Metropolitan Police has dropped its investigation into betting on the date of the general election, saying the bar for misconduct in public office had not been met.
2 mins
Steelworks to shutter early putting 2,500 jobs at risk
Thousands of steelworkers are set to be laid off just before Christmas after British Steel brought forward plans to close its blast furnaces in Scunthorpe.
3 mins
Storm Lilian causes chaos with rain and high winds
Storm Lilian swept across large parts of the UK yesterday causing power cuts, cancelled flights, train delays and disruption at music festivals.
2 mins
Jenas 'deeply sorry' for 'inappropriate messages'
As more women complain about conduct of TV presenter
3 mins
Man who played leading role in Southport riot jailed
A man armed with a bicycle who was bitten by a police dog and a demonstrator who stole an officer's riot shield during the riots are among the latest offenders to be jailed.
3 mins
Abuse at 'humane' abbatoir supplying big supermarkets
Workers have been filmed hitting suffering pigs at an RSPCA-backed slaughterhouse supplying pork to Tesco and other supermarkets. The scenes of cruelty were captured in secret filming at C&K Meats in Eye, Suffolk, which kills up to 1,400 pigs a day in gas chambers – both intensively-reared and free-range.
4 mins
Harris goes on attack to brand Trump 'unserious'
Vice-president makes appeal to middle-class America
4 mins
Modi urges Zelensky to hold peace talks with Russia
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has urged Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky to sit down for talks with Russia to end Moscow's invasion, during a visit to Kyiv a month after hugging Vladimir Putin.
3 mins
Three killed after stabbing attack at German festival
Three people were killed and four others are fighting for their lives after a knife attack at a festival in Germany last night. Witnesses alerted police after a man stabbed several passers-by at random in the western German city of Solingen yesterday, the newspaper Bild reported.
1 min
Type 2 polio virus paralyses 10-month-old baby in Gaza
WHO says it's the first such case in the territory in 25 years
2 mins
Court judges trans woman's exclusion from app unlawful
The exclusion of a transgender woman from a female-only social media app was unlawful, according to an Australian court’s landmark ruling that is likely to have far wider ramifications in the space of trans rights.
2 mins
Households cut food spend 7.5% as cost of living bites.
Households in the UK cut their real-terms spending on food and non-alcoholic drinks in the year to March 2023, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has said.
2 mins
Gunners face early test in a title fight of tiny margins
Both of these managers have done very good jobs, both of these clubs have made sizeable strides. One of them is nonetheless likely about to get criticised and told they need to do more in the next week or risk missing out on their objectives. And it almost doesn't matter which coach it's aimed at.
3 mins
Fist pumps aren't my style, says Slot as Anfield awaits
Arne Slot was hired by Liverpool as a kind of continuity candidate, capable of managing Jurgen Klopp's squad, believing in a similar style of play. Yet should Anfield witness a home win over Brentford tomorrow, there will be a very different sight after the final whistle. The celebrations will be more subdued. Or his will be, anyway.
3 mins
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